During a bone marrow donation procedure, people will have a general or local anesthetic, so they will not feel any pain. After the procedure, someone may experience side effects, such as aches or ...

Some people live with conditions that stop their bone marrow from working as it should. These people often need a transplant to survive. To help, donors can give: cells from bone marrow peripheral ...

A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

Bone marrow donation represents a crucial medical procedure that saves countless lives each year. Despite its importance in treating various life-threatening diseases, many people remain unclear about ...

As Bone Marrow Stem Cell Donation and Leukaemia Awareness Month approaches, the importance of demystifying bone marrow donation has never been clearer. Murray Hewlett, CEO of Affinity Health, ...

A bone marrow transplant, or stem cell transplant, places blood stem cells back into the body. The transplant replaces cells that cancer or treatments have destroyed. People may have a bone marrow ...

The University of Utah Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute and Primary Children's Hospital provides comprehensive, compassionate, state-of-the-art care for patients ...

Bone marrow biopsies are among medicine's most painful and expensive tests. Cancer patients often undergo them. But soon, a blood test may reduce the need for this procedure. Several hundred thousand ...

A 10-year-old girl in Pennsylvania is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant — and her mother is on a mission to find the perfect match. Lani Walter suffers from a disease called DOCK8 deficiency ...